Off-duty firefighter charged with assault for beating up father and son in fight over Staten Island car crash

FDNY Bravest Quarterback Daniel Woodford (7) stands for the National Anthem before playing the Philadelphia Blue Flame in a tackle football game Saturday, April 7, 2018 at Petrides High school. (Bill Lyons / Staten Island Advance)

An ex-Staten Island correction officer ended up in the hospital with a broken nose and bleeding on his brain early Sunday after he tried to help two men who crashed their car near his home.

Dale Williams, 57, was set upon so badly by the men — one of them an off-duty firefighter — that his son feared for his life.

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“I was trying to protect my father," said Dale Williams Jr.

The wild melee began after 32-year-old firefighter Daniel Woodford’s younger brother, Sean, crashed a Ford Mustang into a telephone pole across the street from the Williams’ home on W. Raleigh Ave. near Ford Pl. in West Brighton around 1 a.m., police sources said.

Williams Jr., 28, came out of the house to find the Woodford brothers and Sean’s girlfriend stumbling out of the car with beer cans all around them. The trio had just come from a house party nearby, he said.